Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-08
pKOM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
w auINGrnN d C. ,IulV S. 1857.

FIX. Congressman DeZendorf, OF Virginia,
a republican, in talk with the GAZETTE
correspondent to-day, said the whole nag
business was unfortunate, both for the coun-
try and for his party. He says he knows
of his own personal knowledge that nine.
tenths of the Southern people are as loyal
to the country rs he is, and that while the
opposition to the return OF the Southern
flags was natural, as the President revoked
the order for their return, all the fuss the
G. A. r. have kicked up about it, and their
treatment of the President are wrong. tie
saws he believes if the next Presidential
campaign be fought by his party as it should
be. thew will gain the victory but that II
thew fight it under the bloody shirt they
will be defeated-and properly. He says
Mr.. Sherman made the best speech OF his
lifs at Nashville, but soon afterwards went
to Springfield, ILL.,, and ruined the whole
good effect of it by making as bad one as
q man with his aspirations could possibly
have made.
w. o. Conway, one Of the Oldest clerks in
the Land Office, having entered in 1904,
and rose to be chief law clerk, at salary
of $4,000 per annum, resigned his position
to-day. He is from Maryland, and is
staunch democrat.
The post of the G.. A. r. from Lynn,
Mass, which recently visited Richmond,
left here for their homes this morning.
Some of the members, yesterday morning,
when at the Capitol, said they did not in
tend to do the President the honor OF call
ing upon him. But subsequently they
changed their minds, and not only did call
upon, but gave him three cheers. Some
Massachusetts people here to-day ssy they
will wish they hadn't when they get hack
home.
The recent discovery of the Bacon defaul.
cation has developed the fact that the man
Immediately over Bacon, and whose duty 1t
was to have examined his books, is carpet.
Dagger Mailing from Virginia, whom several
prominent Virginians have been in vain try.
ing to have removed, but who still retains
his place because Secretary Lamar thinks
the bureau in which he is cannot get along
without his services.
With regard to the organization of the
Senate next December q prominent North
ern democratic politician here to-day said the
anxiety about the possible loss of two demo-
cratic Senators, the newly elected ones from
| West Virginia and Indiana, was groundless.
He said the hold over Senators were % re-
publicans, % democrats aud Mr.. Riddleber'
ger. None of the others have as yet been
sworn in, and cannot vote until they shall
| be. Should it be evident that the % repub-
| leans will vote against the admission OF
Messrs. Faulkner and Turpin upon the
ground that their certificates OF election are
not like those Of The other new members,
| the % democratic members would he said,
move to admit the new democratic as we'll
as the new republican members, would su5-
jtain that motion to o man, ard would pos.
Fsibly be helped by Mr.. Riddleberger, who
has DO particular reason to be especially
enamored of the present organization OF the
Senate.
| Among the strangers at the Capitol TO-
day was Mr. Phelan, of Memphis, the young
est member Of the House. He says that
whatever of democratic dissatisfaction with
| the President that may have existed in the
| South, a great deal OF it has been done away
with by the recent treatment he has re-
| ceived in the North on account OF the mani
| festation Of his disposition 10 have the war
over in fact as in name.
Detective McDevitt told the GAZETTE's
correspondent to-day that though he had
not vet heard Of Williams, the murderer of
4! Policeman Arnold in Alexandria, he was
almost sure he would get him. He said the
| open air and woods were too comfortable
| now to hope to catch him, but that when
cold weather set in he would be compelled
to seek shelter, and that then he would be
caught.
The impression is becoming more and
more general here that the administration is
warming towards the South, and that civil
service and mugwump ideas are not so DO.
| tential with it, at least as regards the South,
as formerly.
Assistant Surgeon Torney, U. s. A., has been re-
| lieved from duty at Fortress Monroe, to which
place Assistant Surgeon Pitcher has been ordered.
| Ex. Congressman Gibson, from West Virginia,
was at the Capitol to-day. He says tho Governor
of his State will not sign the certificate of cleo
ton of Senator Faulkner, so that there must be
| contest, and that he does not believe the Senate
will admit either Mr. Faulker or his contestant,
Mr.. Lucas.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, in the Shipman-
Fletcher conspiracy case, made the concluding ar
gument for the plaintiff in the criminal court OF
this city to-day.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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